Wedgwood Plate
could someone please help me with a rita dove poem analysis?
Flirtation
After all, there’s no need
To say anything
at first. An orange, peeled
and quartered, flares
like a tulip on a Wedgwood plate.
Anything can happen.
Outside the sun
Has rolled up her rugs
And night strewn salt
across the sky. My heart
is humming a tune
I haven’t heard in years!
Quiet’s cool flesh—
let’s sniff and eat it.
There are ways
to make of the moment
a topiary
so the pleasure’s in
walking through.
Well I'm not the best but I'll try- She is showing an attraction as being fun, fresh (an orange peeled- you can almost smell that fresh scent) The tulip that she makes us see as open by using the word flares and the Wedgwood plate is china and has been associated with a wonderful gift for couples all this gives the feeling that flirtation holds promise in the heart of unspoken hope. And with that I think she is saying it is nighttime (the sun lays no shadows (rugs) and the salt strewn sky are stars and she is very happy feeling young and pretty and hungry for this moment that can be molded (topiary) in the joy of simply enjoying it.
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